A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of BLACK STUDIES RESEARCH SOURCES Microfilms from Major Archival and Manuscript Collections General Editors: John H. Bracey, Jr., Sharon Harley, and August Meier PAPERS OF THE NAACP Part Branch Department Files 25 Series C: Branch Newsletters and Printed Materials, 1956–1965 UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS OF AMERICA A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of BLACK STUDIES RESEARCH SOURCES Microfilms from Major Archival and Manuscript Collections General Editors: John H. Bracey, Jr., Sharon Harley, and August Meier PAPERS OF THE NAACP Part 25: Branch Department Files Series C: Branch Newsletters and Printed Materials, 1956–1965 Edited by John H. Bracey, Jr. and Sharon Harley Project Coordinator Randolph Boehm Guide compiled by Daniel Lewis A microfilm project of UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS OF AMERICA An Imprint of LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions 4520 East-West Highway • Bethesda, MD 20814-3389 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Papers of the NAACP. [microform] Accompanied by printed reel guides. Contents: pt. 1. Meetings of the Board of Directors, records of annual conferences, major speeches, and special reports, 1909–1950 / editorial adviser, August Meier; edited by Mark Fox—pt. 2. Personal correspondence of selected NAACP officials, 1919–1939 —[etc.]—pt. 25. Branch Department Files.—[etc.]—pt. 27. Selected Branch Files, 1956–1965. 1. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People—Archives. 2. Afro-Americans—Civil Rights—History—20th century—Sources. 3. Afro- Americans—History—1877–1964—Sources. 4. United States—Race relations—Sources. I. Meier, August, 1923– . II. Boehm, Randolph. III. Title. E185.61 [Microfilm] 973′.0496073 86-892185 ISBN 1-55655-832-5 (microfilm: pt. 25, series C) Copyright © 2001 by University Publications of America. All rights reserved. ISBN 1-55655-832-5. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Scope and Content Note .......................................................................................................... vii Source Note.............................................................................................................................. xi Editorial Note ........................................................................................................................... xi Abbreviations ........................................................................................................................... xiii Reel Index Group III, Series I, Printed Matter Reel 1 Directories Group III, Box I-3 Branch Directories, August 1957–1962 ........................................................................... 1 Group III, Box I-4 Branch Directories, 1962–1964 ....................................................................................... 1 Branch Directory, Key NAACP Branches........................................................................ 1 Reel 2 Handbooks and Manuals Group III, Box I-4 cont. Southeast Regional Office, 1961–1965 ........................................................................... 1 West Coast Region, [1956–1963].................................................................................... 2 Newsletters, Branches Group III, Box I-5 Anchorage, Alaska, 1957–1959 ...................................................................................... 2 Arkansas [State Conference], 1961 ................................................................................ 2 Arizona [Maricopa County, Tucson, Yuma], 1956–1965 ................................................. 2 California, Berkeley–Orange County [Berkeley, Compton, Los Angeles, Monterey Peninsula, Oakland, Orange County], 1956–1965 ...................................................... 2 California, “P” [Palo Alto–Stanford, Pasadena], 1956–1965 ............................................ 2 Reel 3 Newsletters, Branches cont. Group III, Box I-5 cont. California, “R” [Richmond], 1956–1965 ............................................................................ 2 Group III, Box I-6 California, “S”–“V” [Sacramento, San Fernando Valley, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica–Venice, Santa Rosa, Vallejo], 1956–1965 .................. 3 Colorado [Colorado Springs], 1961 .................................................................................. 3 Connecticut [Bridgeport, New Haven, New London, Norwalk], 1956–1964 ...................... 3 District of Columbia, 1960–1961 ..................................................................................... 3 Delaware [Wilmington], 1958–1962 ................................................................................. 3 Florida [State Conference, Tampa], 1958–1963 .............................................................. 3 Georgia [State Conference], 1959 ................................................................................... 3 Illinois, Chicago, 1956–1964 ........................................................................................... 3 iii Group III, Box I-7 Illinois, Danville–State Conference [Danville, Galesburg, Joliet, Lincoln, University of Illinois, Illinois State Conference], 1956–1964 ........................................................ 4 Indiana [Greater Lafayette, Terre Haute, Indiana State Conference], 1960–1965............ 4 Iowa [Des Moines, Fort Madison], 1956–1965 ................................................................ 4 Reel 4 Newsletters, Branches cont. Group III, Box I-7 cont. Kansas [Topeka, Kansas State Conference], 1958–1965 ............................................... 4 Louisiana [New Orleans], 1956–1965 .............................................................................. 4 Maine [Portland], 1965 .................................................................................................... 4 Maryland [Anne Arundel County, Howard County, Montgomery County], 1962–1963, 1965 ........................................................................................................................... 5 Massachusetts [Berkshire County, Boston, South Middlesex, South Shore], 1960– 1965 ........................................................................................................................... 5 Michigan [Cass County, Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Inkster, Lake County, Lansing, Muskegon, River Rouge–Ecorse, Ypsilanti], 1958–1962 ............................................ 5 Minnesota [St. Paul], 1957–1962 .................................................................................... 5 Mississippi [Coahoma County, Mississippi State Conference], 1959–1965 .................... 5 Group III, Box I-8 Missouri [St. Louis, Missouri State Conference], 1957–1965.......................................... 6 Reel 5 Newsletters, Branches cont. Group III, Box I-8 cont. Nevada [Las Vegas, Reno-Sparks], 1958–1962.............................................................. 6 New Jersey [Camden, Elizabeth, Gloucester County, Montclair, Morris County, New Brunswick, Paterson, Plainfield, Roselle, Somerville, Trenton], 1958–1965 ....... 6 New York, “A”–“B” [Astoria, Long Island; Bay Shore–Islip; Bronx; Brooklyn], 1956– 1964 ........................................................................................................................... 6 New York, “C” [Corona–East Elmhurst], 1956–1957 ....................................................... 6 Group III, Box I-9 New York, “D”–“I” [Flushing, Freeport-Roosevelt, Great Neck–Manhasset–Port Washington–Roslyn, Greenwich Village–Chelsea], 1956–1964................................... 7 Reel 6 Newsletters, Branches cont. Group III, Box I-9 cont. New York, Central Long Island, 1956–1963 .................................................................... 7 New York, “J”–“L” [Jamaica, Lakeview], 1956–1965 ....................................................... 8 Reel 7 Newsletters, Branches cont. Group III, Box I-10 New York, “N” [New Rochelle, New York City, Nyack], 1956–1964 ................................. 8 New York, Rochester, 1958–1963 ................................................................................... 8 New York, “S”–“Z” [Spring Valley, Williamsbridge], 1956–1965 ....................................... 8 New York, Schenectady, 1956–1965 .............................................................................. 9 New York State Conference, 1956–1965......................................................................... 9 iv Reel 8 Newsletters, Branches cont. Group III, Box I-11 North Carolina [Greensboro, Monroe], 1959–1960 ........................................................... 9 Ohio [Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus], 1958–1962 ........................................... 9 Oregon [Portland], 1958–1963 ........................................................................................ 9 Pennsylvania [Allegheny-Kiski Valley, Bucks County, Coatesville, Dauphin County, Lancaster, Media, Philadelphia, Reading, Washington, Pennsylvania State Conference], 1958–1963 ............................................................................................. 10 South Carolina [State Conference], 1960–1965 .............................................................. 10 Tennessee [Chattanooga, Haywood County, Memphis, Nashville], 1959–1963 .............. 10 Texas [State Conference], 1959–1965 ............................................................................ 10 Utah [Salt Lake City], 1959–1960 ..................................................................................